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Fluent in half a dozen languages,
Francisco attended his first IVU congress in 1979, at Loughborough in
the UK, and has spoken regularly at regional and world congresses ever
since. A member of the IVU Council from 1986, he became General Secretary
in 1996. From 1996 to 1999 he edited two magazines: IVU News [in English]
and Veganismo [in Spanish]. His articles have been translated into several
other languages.

A tireless campaigner against
bullfighting and all other forms of cruelty and injustice, in 1993, Francisco
singlehandedly organised the Seventh International Vegan Festival, held
in Tossa de Mar - the first town in Spain to ban bullfighting. As IVU
General Secretary, he also had the task of organising the 33rd World Congress,
held in Thailand in 1999, the first at which all food was required to
be entirely free of animal products, a requirement subsequently enshrined
in the rules of IVU. The following year he was made an honorary Fellow
of IVU in recognition of his services to the movement. Francisco is a
member of council.

Francisco will present at
36th World Vegetarian Congress the following talks: